Adolph Lincoln Nelson

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Adolph Lincoln Nelson (1888–?){{cite news|title=Galesburg proves to be inventive place in early 1900s|work=The Register-Mail|date=March 4, 2006|first=Tom|last=Wilson}} was an American inventor. He was the inventor of the Nelson Bohnalite piston.{{US patent reference | number = 2100719A | y = 1937 | m = Nov | d = 30 | inventor = Nelson Adolph L | title = Piston}}{{cite web |url=http://www.google.pn/patents/US2100719 |title=Piston |website=US Patent Office |access-date=18 January 2016}} He was born in Oneida, Illinois, raised in nearby Galesburg and migrated to Indianapolis where he worked for Premier Motor car. When that company folded he went to Detroit after a stint in Dayton working for the Army Air Force on the synchronized airplane-based machine gun. He married Ada Gruber and had 7 Children. They lived in the Palmer Woods area of Detroit. (Parkside)

Certain materials from his engineering career are in the archives at the University of Michigan Bentley Historical Library.